Lello Serao

Back from the hospital where he has been treated after a heart attack, Lorenzo is on his way upstairs to his top-floor apartment in Naples when he meets Michela. The charming young woman, who has just moved to the facing apartment, has forgotten her keys and finds herself locked out. Cynical and grumpy, the retired lawyer who has been living estranged from the rest of the world, should normally leave her to her fate but he mellows under her spontaneous charm. He helps her, becomes friends not only with her but with her husband Fabio and their two children. For once, the self-declared misanthropist seems to be experiencing the long forgotten feeling of empathy.

무기를 직접 제작해 타겟을 제거하는 노련한 암살요원 잭은 스웨덴에서 임무를 마치고 사진작가로 신분을 위장한 채 이탈리아로 향한다. 중세 분위기를 고스란히 간직한 이탈리아의 작은 마을에서 잭은 자신을 ‘아메리칸’이라 부르는 신부 베네데토를 만나게 된다. 모든 임무를 단독 처리하는 원칙을 철저히 지키며 홀로 지내왔던 잭은 어느 순간, 베네데토 신부와 우정을 쌓게 되고, 클라라라는 여인도 만나면서 임무에 대한 부담과 언제 들이닥칠지 모를 죽음에 대한 두려움에서 조금씩 자유로워진다. 평온한 일상도 잠시, 그 곳에서 미모의 암살요원 마틸드에게 새로운 무기를 제작해주라는 임무를 맡고, 초소형 권총 제작을 시작한 잭. 하지만, 언제부터인지 누군가 감시 중인 시선을 느끼면서, 자신이 타겟이 되었음을 직감한 그는 점점 더 거대한 위협 속에 빠져드는데.…

A group of actors meet with little money in a unofficial theatre in Naples' Spanish Boroughs. Director's plan is to travel to Sarajevo, still under siege, to stage a classic Eschilus' play about civil war in Tebe. While they rehearse in the theatre cast members come and go and another kind of war goes on every day in nearby streets of old Naples.

Five Neapolitan directors depict life in the city under the shadow of Mount Vesuvius for this anthology film of comedy, drama, surrealism, and political commentary.

1975: poet, intellectual, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini is bludgeoned to death and run over with his own car in the outskirts of Rome. Charged with murder, 17-year-old hustler Pino Pelosi pleads self-defense -- after all, Pasolini was a well-known pederast. However, many inconsistencies start to undermine his version of events, pointing to him not having acted alone or even being assaulted in the first place. Was Pasolini also murdered for another reason?

Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital, left by his wife, and increasingly disillusioned with academia and the Communist Party, he lives his last days with painful detachment.

Antonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage. Their mother has been arrested for forcing Rosetta (11 years old) to work as a prostitute. First the relation between Antonio and the children is tough, but it relaxes so they become temporary friends.